Thanks for the reply Rick. I don't know what happened but I had to boot my machine into win95 yesterday and when I rebooted into Linux last night, the printer started working right. I thought lpd would startup without rebooting but maybe I misunderstood. Thanks again, Ron >From: Rick Rosinski >Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us >To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us >Subject: Re: Getting ldp to run >Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 15:28:52 -0700 > >Check your /etc/printcap file. >Make sure that the /dev/lp.... stuff is correct. > >Also, lpc reports that there is no daemon running because there are no >entries >in the que. Once a job is in the que, lpc would report what is happening >(whether the printer is off-line or printing). > >I use slackware, and so I would not know about the configuration tools of >redhat > >On Sat, 05 Feb 2000, you wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am unable to use lpd to print a file on RH 6.1. lpc tells me the >daemon > > is not running. I have used printtool and configured the printer to lp1 >(I > > have two parallel ports but I have a dotmatrix printer on lp0 that I am >not > > using) and WP8 works perfect with lp1. Any ideas where to look? I >tried > > restarting lpd with printtool but lpc then says the daemon is not >running. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ron Standage > > ______________________________________________________ > > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >-- >Rick Rosinski >http://www.rickrosinski.com >rick@rickrosinski.com > >_______________________________________________ >Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com